Your Science Classroom: Becoming an Elementary / Middle School Science Teacher, by authors M. Jenice eoeDeee Goldston and Laura Downey, is a core teaching methods textbook for use in elementary and middle school science methods courses. Designed around a practical, eoepractice-what-you-teache approach to methods instruction, the text is based on current constructivist philosophy, organized around 5E inquiry, and guided by the National Science Education Teaching Standards.You found a great lesson plan from a colleaguea#39;s book using paper helicopters to
explore variables in experiments. ... For example, general templates for creating
a 5E lesson plan may be found at http://www.emints.org/ tools/
constructivistlessonplan form.doc or at ... Network Elementary Science: The Five
Ea#39;s: A Lesson Plan Modela located at http://teachersnet work.org/NTNY/nychelp/
science/five_e.htm.